The Hindu Reader's Editor on crossword errors

Special: THCC CC1, Sunday 20 Apr 2014

The clues for this Community Crossword are written by a team of volunteers who are members of this blog, some taking two clues each and others one each.

Solvers are NOT required to enter answers in the Comment section as is generally done for our Sunday specials. This time they are invited to send the solutions to chaturvasi{at}yahoo{dot}com in solution grid form or in run-on paras (Across: 1 ..., 4 ... etc. Down: 1 ..., 2 ... etc.)  before 11-59 p.m. IST Monday, the 21st April, 2014.

Clue writers too may take part, though they might already know one or two answers.

The name of the solver who sends the first all-correct entry (as received by the moderator) will be declared the winner. The names of all others who send all-correct entries will be published when the results are announced.

The moderator takes no responsibility for mails not received.

The filled-in grid was contributed by Chaturvasi.

Visitors to the blog who in the past were not able to post answers before the deadline are specially invited to send solutions, making use of the time available now. Please add your place of residence.

Those who send entries are encouraged to indicate any clues that they consider are good. When publishing the results, I will say which won most mentions.

ACROSS

1 A gap in ridge leads to only new port in Panama (5)

4 Reportedly see over leaderless resistance group (9)

9 Appear confused before starting to loosen clothes (7)

10 Stiff competition Australian openers raved about (7)

11 Leave Elliot's creature holding side (4)

12 A girl is caught in mistaken identification (4)

13 Increases lead in competition getting out of difficult situations (5)

15 Wild boar disappeared in Bangalore intersection (5)

16 East-facing Bangalore (Malleswaram) houses not trendy in comparison (5)

17 Rugged (spikiest!) off-piste type of course (3)

18 Sabira returns concealing a part of the body (3)

20 External path beginning to end (5)

23 Corrupt lame duck led out in a frenzy (5)

25 Doctor, brainy, not initially navigating via sky (2,3)

26 Ailing son goes out to model taking a moment (4)

27 Cayman edges off exercising supernatural power (4)

30 Reacts emotionally to rates moving higher (5,2)

31 One carried by IT professional's driver (7)

32 Woeful sorrows filling cryptic definitions initially in this puzzle (9)

33 What's given to a winner? Lunch, perhaps, including a bit of dal (5)

DOWN

1 Split with king for the French to covet (5)

2 Running out of drinks in the middle of get-together (7)

3 Noah's Ark? No wonders, he is a tell-tale (4)

4 Pass a greenhorn officer (7)

5 An obstruction under the river? Over the surface (7)

6 Because of competition one's taken to court (10)

7 Envelops in undergarments (7)

8 Measures of distance receive sign of approval (9)

14 Before sod's turned, everything is hunky-dory (3,2,5)

15 Cricketer after a century is run out by one at cover point like an athlete (9)

19 Support Virginia Act with bluster (7)

21 What the kid got into for summer activity perhaps? (3,2,2)

22 Spoke obtained from citizen breaking musical instrument (7)

24 Carrying no weapon, heroic leader escaped without getting hurt (7)

28 Every second earn in fuel to neutralize (5)

29 Quietly the French left a specimen for test (4)

To attempt the Crossword on a separate page follow the link THCC CC1

Enjoy.

Clue-writers: 

Ajeesh, Bhavan, Bhalchandra, Deepak,  Devanathan, Happy Rotter, Kishore, Mohsin, Navneeth, Padmanabhan, 

Prashanth Sai, Raghunath, Raju, Ram, Ramesh, Richard, Saral, Shrikanth, Shuchismita. Vasant, Vijay, Venkatesh